• Source: 1750 in poetry

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      Events


      Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for "On the Attributes of the Supreme Being"


      Works published


      William Collins, The Passions: An ode
      Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Moartial Virtue, published anonymously
      Robert Dodsley, The Oeconomy of Human Life, published anonymously; has also been attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; published this year, although the book states "1751"
      Mary Jones, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
      Charlotte Lennox, The Art of Coquetry
      James Thomson, Poems on Several Occasions, posthumous
      Thomas Warton, the younger, New-market, published anonymously this year, although the book states "1751"
      Edward Young, The Complaint; or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, published anonymously; the collected edition of Nights, Books 1–9 (see The Complaint 1742)


      Births


      Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

      April 24 – John Trumbull (died 1831), American poet
      June 19 – Lemuel Hopkins (died 1801), American poet and satirist
      July 30 – John Taylor (died 1826), English businessman, poet and Unitarian hymn writer
      September 5 – Robert Fergusson (died 1774), Scottish poet
      September 18 – Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa (died 1791), Spanish poet
      October 31 – Leonor de Almeida Portugal (died 1839), Portuguese poet
      November 7 – Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (died 1819), German poet
      December 8 – Lady Anne Barnard, née Lindsay (died 1825), Scottish poet and author of the ballad "Auld Robin Gray"


      Deaths


      Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

      February 8 – Aaron Hill (born 1685), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer
      March 20 – Johann Sigismund Scholze (born 1705), German
      March 21 – Mehetabel Wesley Wright (born 1697), English
      July 29 – Laetitia Pilkington (born c. 1709), Anglo-Irish poet and memoirist
      John Winstanley (born 1678?), Anglo-Irish


      See also



      Poetry
      List of years in poetry


      Notes

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